Enterprise Storage Contract Job Trends in the North West

Enterprise Storage
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.040% - 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile £525 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile £575 - £444
90th Percentile - - £455
England median daily rate £490 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -5.96% +4.10% -7.41%

All Generic Skills
North West

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 894 694 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 36.06% 30.55% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 367 551
10th Percentile £209 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -4.85% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £681 £672
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 35
10th Percentile £16.19 £20.00 £16.49
25th Percentile £20.18 £21.63 £21.18
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +68.68%
75th Percentile £59.63 £35.38 £46.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £66.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £39.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -30.38% -10.23% +25.71%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Storage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend in the North West

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Storage within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 1 £550 - 4
Enterprise Storage
England

Enterprise Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) IBM XIV
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware